Characters - Pan Macmillan

The Jungle Book
Characters
Rudyard Kipling created some timeless characters in
Jungle Book
The JungleTheBook
– find out more about them below.
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lack Pa‘tiger’
Shere
Khan:
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means
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BALOO – Brown bear
to be cun
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reckless
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that
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Python, had changed his
KAA – Rock Python
skin for perhaps the two• Is thirty feet long, and shedding
his skin cantime
take tensince
days
hundredth
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BaGheera
his • birth;
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lie
like to be hurried
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SHERE
KHAN
–
Tiger
he around
owed them
his life
to Kaa
in huge
coils
• Doesn’t dare to cross Akela
for a night’s work at
and kill in the Jungle
• Not trustworthy
Cold Lairs, which you
• Doesn’t think the wolves
may perhaps remember, went to congratulate
him.
Wainganga:
a winding
river
in central India w
should shelter
Mowgli
Skin-changing always makes a snake moody and
360 miles long. Its name means ‘arrow of w
depressed till the new skin begins to shine and look
beautiful. Kaa never made fun of MowgliKipling’s
any more, stories, the river feeds all life in th
but accepted him, as the other Jungle People did,
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villages and everyone re
for the Master of the Jungle, and brought
all
the news that a python of his size wouldits
naturally
waters.
hear. What Kaa did not know about the Middle
Wordsearch
Can you find all the following words from
The Jungle Book hidden in the grid below?
AKELA
BAGHEERA
BALOO
CHIL
FATHER WOLF
GREY BROTHER
HATHI
IKKI
KAA
KALA NAG
MANG
MESSUA
MOWGLI
RAKSHA
SHERE KHAN
TABAQUI
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It was Bagheera, the
Black Panther, inky black
all over, but with the panther
markings showing up in
certain lights...
The Jungle Book Colouring Book
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